Here I go again, bringing politics into it.

So there’s this woman who’s spent 3 years to make a film. She used music from the 1920s. The music itself is out of copyright but the sheet music is still tied up. The copyright owners want $200,000 - non negotiable.

This stuff is 90 years old, people. Let it go. You’ve perverted the entire concept behind copyright, just so a large corporation can maintain their stranglehold grip on a fucking cartoon mouse.

Article is here, Ebert blog post that led me to it is here.

The film itself looks fantastic and I’m upset that I’ll likely never see it.

Great article interviewing the original BG team here.

If this series had continued, I suspect I would still be gaming on the PC.

Too grim, over-long and really not very much fun. The Blu-ray transfer is pretty disappointing too, being overly processed and edgy.

Maybe I’m just getting old, but I didn’t get very much out of this one. Lucky I paid less for the disc than I would have for a cinema ticket, then.

Title says it all, really.

Try this link, then.

It’s region-free, so will work on a Region B or Region A player. Just don’t win my copy, okay?

I bet this is the sort of thing Crumpet would like me to write for her.

It’ll be hard, but I gotta try this.

Phew. Just ordered my mother’s Christmas present, overdrawing the old credit card, but I needed to be sure I got it.

I’ve already gotten one half of Crumpet’s present and will order the other half on pay day. Then I need to buy something for her sister as part of the Kris Kringle thing that her ridiculously large Catholic family do, and then I’m done.

Early. For once.

If you value a free Internet, you might want to join me in the city.

Has anyone tried using the Netgear ReadyNas Duo as a media server with the PS3?

If so, can you play .mkv files and other media files not normally supported by the PS3 with it?

Really? That’s your question?